Solus 1.1 'Shannon' Released

The Solus Linux team announced release of Solus 1.1 'Shannon', latest update of independently evolved GNU/Linux distribution that make use of eopkg package manager. Solus features a traditional, simple, lightweight and yet powerful desktop environment which is known as Budgie.

Solus 1.1 is developed using the groundwork of Solus 1.0 and it comes with a lot improvements and refinements.

From release announcement:

It isn’t tradition for Linux distributions to ship fundamental
changes in point releases. But given our tradition of breaking
traditions, we’ve shipped a plethora of optimizations to the core of our
operating system and further optimization to the core libraries used
throughout our display / graphic stack.

We now provide preliminary OpenGL 4.1 support.

Mesa has been updated to 11.1.2

Xorg has been updated to 1.17.4

We’ve
synchronized our Intel X11 driver with the last development version in
git for improved performance and extended hardware support, including
Broadwell, Skylake and preliminary support for future SKUs.